id: 142647 accession number: 1966.371 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.371 updated: 2023-03-10 19:43:04.251000 The Vicarello Goblet, 25 BC–AD 25. Italy, Vicarello (ancient Aquae Apollinares), Roman, Augustan period. Silver; overall: 12.2 x 7.8 cm (4 13/16 x 3 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1966.371 title: The Vicarello Goblet title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 25 BC–AD 25 creation date earliest: -25 creation date latest: 25 current location: 103 Roman creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Vicarello (ancient Aquae Apollinares), Roman, Augustan period technique: silver department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Roman type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 12.2 x 7.8 cm (4 13/16 x 3 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Silver for the Gods: 800 Years of Greek and Roman Silver opening date: 1977-10-08T04:00:00 Silver for the Gods: 800 Years of Greek and Roman Silver. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (organizer) (October 8-November 20, 1977); The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (December 11, 1977-January 22, 1978); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (February 18-April 2, 1978). title: The Twain Shall Meet opening date: 1985-10-30T05:00:00 The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). title: Collecting Drawings in England opening date: 1987-11-03T05:00:00 Collecting Drawings in England. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1987-January 17, 1988). title: All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection opening date: 1994-11-23T05:00:00 All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 23, 1994-January 8, 1995). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Sir William Drake, F.S.A. (1817-1890), London, England date: 1867 or after- footnotes: citations: Baron Edmond de Rothschild (1845-1934), Paris, France date: By 1912 footnotes: citations: [Auction: Christie's, London, (1966 APR 05), no. 12] date: 1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This silver cup was found north of Rome at Vicarello (ancient Aquae Apollinares), probably in 1862. digital description: This masterpiece of the Roman silversmith’s art is exquisitely worked in relief. The multifigure scene centers on a rustic shrine of the ithyphallic fertility god Priapus, son of Dionysos. He takes the form of a stylized boundary marker atop a column, where a woman seems to have brought him to life by touching him. To the left sits a table with votive offerings to the god. Flanking the shrine are a satyr and maenad, dancing ecstatically. wall description: This masterpiece of the Roman silversmith’s art was found north of Rome at Vicarello, the ancient Aquae Apollinares (the Springs of Apollo). Exquisitely worked in relief is a multifigure scene centered on a rustic shrine of the god Priapus. He is in the form of a stylized boundary marker placed atop a column. A woman approaching from the right seems to have brought him to life by touching him. To the left are votive offerings to the god arranged on top of and around a table. A satyr at the far left and a maenad at the far right dance ecstatically. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Otto Jahn, Archiologische Zeitung XXV (Berlin, 1867). page number: pp. 78-82, pl. CCXXV url: Lièvre, Ed, Bracquemond, Courtry, and Flameng. Works of Art in the Collections of England. Engr. London: [s.n.], 1874. page number: pl XLVIII url: Reinach, Salomon. Répertoire de reliefs grecs et romains. Paris: E. Leroux, 1912. page number: II, 301 url: Daremberg, Charles Victor, and Edm Saglio. Dictionnaire des antiquités Grecques et Romains d'après les textes et les monuments. Paris: Hachette, 1926. page number: IV, pt. 2, p. 1479 url: Christie, Manson & Woods. Important English, Continental and Islamic, Medieval, Renaissance and Other Works of Art. 1966. page number: no. 12 url: Cooney, John D. "The Vicarello Goblet." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 2 (1967). page number: url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152141 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 24 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n46 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 28 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n48 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 12 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n27 Falkenstein-Wirth, Vera von. Das Quellheiligtum von Vicarello (Aquae Apollinares): ein Kultort von der Bronzezeit bis zum Ende des Kaiserreichs. Darmstadt: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2011. page number: pp 246-247, fig 190-192 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.371/1966.371_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.371/1966.371_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.371/1966.371_full.tif